At this free event, Carol Kostakos Petranek will speak on "Using U.S. Records to find your Immigrant Ancetor's Original Name and Village of Origin."
Carol serves as an Assistant Director of the Washington, D. C. Family History Center where she coordinates classes, conferences and community outreach projects. She is a Citizen Archivist ad the National Archives in Washington, D.C. and volunteers as a Genealogy Aid in the Research Room. Carol is the Volunteer Coordinator for a joint FamilySearch/Maryland Archives digitization project of probate and estate records. She is a specialist in Greek genealogy research and a volunteer for Greek records preservation at My Heritage.